Re: E-commerce payment systems for apache/mod_perl
On 2 Jul 2002, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: Any obvious choices for a relatively small-scale e-commerce payment processing system for a server running apache / mod_perl? There are a few 'clearing house' type services to which one can subscribe that do the actual cybercash-type transaction for you. it can be expensive and prohibitively complicated to set up the services yourself. For small sites, I have fired off perl scripts that use openssl to connect to a serice we hired, passing the info they need, and waiting for a response that i parse and display to the user, as i write it to our db2 db as well with dbd-dbi.. Damned if i can remember the name of the service we used. i wrote it for the 1998 superbowl. I can only imagine that the number of such services has proliferated since then, but i havent checked lately. ive been out of e-commerce since 2000. Ive had a devil of a time running the cybercash (and similar) services for myself as every option seemed to be expensive, buggy, or lacking on customer support when the end customer inevitably asked questions i couldnt answer. maybe they have improved in the last 2 years, butfiring it off to someone else (the classic SEP or 'somebody elses problem' theorem), waiting for a nice pleasant order number to be returned over ssl, and printing it to the screen branded as if my site did it all by itself is worth a small charge per transaction that youre going to end up paying anyway even if you do it all yourself. Do you have a particular company doing your order fulfillment? If so, they may have such an arrangement or service already in place. a lot i ran into did. -- gedanken
Re: E-commerce payment systems for apache/mod_perl
hi, I use two services for payment proccessing. One for digital money www.cyphermint.com/epay/ (quite complex for initial installing, i don't like it) and the second for cc processing (much more simple) you can just give them info about your contract (say id, price, amount) and redirect user on their site for payment processing (http://www.assist.ru/eng/about/cardpayments/) I don't thunk these services are suitable for, but you read some help on it and understand what exactly you need. -vlad Any obvious choices for a relatively small-scale e-commerce payment processing system for a server running apache / mod_perl? -- David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED] / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info
Re[2]: E-commerce payment systems for apache/mod_perl
We have been using ECHO for over 5 years and they have been an excellent company. They are strictly a credit card processing company - no order fulfillment. They also do online check processing and a whole bunch of other services. They are the only processing company that I have seen that really actively supports Open Source. From their website: ECHO's Free, Open Source, GPL Secure Payment Gateway ECHO is the only company on the Internet to provide both a Merchant Account AND Secure Payment Gateway services for only $19.95/month in fixed account fees!* We actually give away our real time processing software modules and gateway access. Even our Merchant Account's $19.95/month fixed account fee is waived for months with no activity. http://www.echo-inc.com/ http://www.openecho.com/ http://www.openecho.com/perl/example.pl http://www.openecho.com/download_files.html HTH, Christopher Taranto WWWarehouse, Inc. At 10:43 PM 7/2/02 -0500, you wrote: Any obvious choices for a relatively small-scale e-commerce payment processing system for a server running apache / mod_perl? -- David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED] / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info
Re: E-commerce payment systems for apache/mod_perl
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 10:43:14PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: Any obvious choices for a relatively small-scale e-commerce payment processing system for a server running apache / mod_perl? http://interchange.redhat.com/ - it's mature - we wrote our own but i'd use it instead if I had to start over http://www.ipaymentinc.com/ - reseller for authorize.net http://authorize.net/ - big transaction provider - supported cpan module (simple/trivial) http://www.dhl.com/ - we get really cheap rates for dhl's next day shipping service world wide (1-2 days continential us $6) (3-4 days door2door to pakistan from indianapolis $21) ... much, much cheaper than even the cheapest ups-residential-ground - ups has well developed xml API's, dhl dosn't Ed
Re: E-commerce payment systems for apache/mod_perl
Gedanken [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 2 Jul 2002, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: Any obvious choices for a relatively small-scale e-commerce payment processing system for a server running apache / mod_perl? There are a few 'clearing house' type services to which one can subscribe that do the actual cybercash-type transaction for you. it can be expensive and prohibitively complicated to set up the services yourself. Yes, that's what I've been half-expecting. [snip] I can only imagine that the number of such services has proliferated since then, but i havent checked lately. ive been out of e-commerce since 2000. Ive had a devil of a time running the cybercash (and similar) services for myself as every option seemed to be expensive, buggy, or lacking on customer support when the end customer inevitably asked questions i couldnt answer. maybe they have improved in the last 2 years, butfiring it off to someone else (the classic SEP or 'somebody elses problem' theorem), waiting for a nice pleasant order number to be returned over ssl, and printing it to the screen branded as if my site did it all by itself is worth a small charge per transaction that youre going to end up paying anyway even if you do it all yourself. I'm hoping I can sell the client this idea; it certainly matches *my* idea of easier. Do you have a particular company doing your order fulfillment? If so, they may have such an arrangement or service already in place. a lot i ran into did. New client (not hooked yet), but I don't believe they're likely to have anything in place from what I know so far. -- David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED] / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info
Re: Re[2]: E-commerce payment systems for apache/mod_perl
Christopher Taranto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We have been using ECHO for over 5 years and they have been an excellent company. They are strictly a credit card processing company - no order fulfillment. They also do online check processing and a whole bunch of other services. They are the only processing company that I have seen that really actively supports Open Source. This looks very promising, thanks for the specific pointer. -- David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED] / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info
Re: E-commerce payment systems for apache/mod_perl
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Vlad Safronov wrote: hi, I use two services for payment proccessing. One for digital money www.cyphermint.com/epay/ (quite complex for initial installing, i don't like it) and the second for cc processing (much more simple) you can just give them info about your contract (say id, price, amount) and redirect user on their site for payment processing (http://www.assist.ru/eng/about/cardpayments/) I don't thunk these services are suitable for, but you read some help on it and understand what exactly you need. -vlad Any obvious choices for a relatively small-scale e-commerce payment processing system for a server running apache / mod_perl? -- David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED] / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info So does anyone have any recommendations for an epay (Pay-pal) system? -- ~~ Doug Silver Network Manager Urchin Software Corp. http://www.urchin.com ~~
E-commerce payment systems for apache/mod_perl
Any obvious choices for a relatively small-scale e-commerce payment processing system for a server running apache / mod_perl? -- David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED] / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info